Dr Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde in his final appearance in the Doctor series) finds his love life improves dramatically when lovely model Delia Mallory (Samantha Eggar) is brought into casualty at Hampden Cross Hospital with a sprained ankle.
Sparrow also finds himself treating Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), who has taken to sleep-walking and has quite suddenly lost his gruff manner and is being quite nice to everyone.
Sparrow quickly diagnoses that Sir Lancelot is smitten with physiotherapist Iris Merchant (Barbara Murray). Sparrow urges him on but she also has another suitor in the form of Major Tommy Ffrench (Donald Houston), a wheelchair-bound patient.
Spratt tries to hire a private detective to follow her, but when that doesn’t work out, he takes to following her himself. Mayhem ensues.
Doctor In Distress features a plethora of small guest appearances, including Fenella Fielding as a frightened lady on a train; Leo McKern in a one-scene cameo as a flamboyant artist; Amanda Barrie looking great in a bikini; Derek Fowlds, Richard Briers, and Johnny Briggs playing medical students; and Ronnie Barker in a little cameo at the train station.
Dr Simon Sparrow
Dirk Bogarde Sir Lancelot Spratt
James Robertson Justice Delia Mallory
Samantha Eggar Iris Marchant, Physiotherapist
Barbara Murray Sonia/Helga Stronberg
Mylène Demongeot Maj. Tommy Ffrench
Donald Houston Mrs Parry
Jessie Evans Mrs Whittaker
Ann Lynn Harry Heilbronn
Leo McKern Student Doctor
Rodney Cardiff Dr Blacker
Dennis Price Genevieve
Jill Adams Grimes
Paul Whitsun-Jones Bradby
Michael Flanders
Director
Ralph Thomas
Video
Related Posts
Carry On Cabby (1963) Carry On Cabby began life as a script that Paul Rothwell had worked on at the request of Peter Rogers, Call Me…
Stitch In Time, A (1963) Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom) and Mr Grimsdale (Edward Chapman) are partners in a butcher's shop, which is held up by…
Dr Crippen (1963) American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed "Peter") was a mild-mannered, middle-aged doctor who made his living in London selling quack remedies.…
Darling (1965) John Schlesinger's quite brilliant, if savage, slashing attack on the new rich, is a story of a young girl whose…
That Kind of Girl (1963) In 1960s London, beautiful and free-spirited Austrian au pair Eva (Margaret Rose Keil) finds herself wrestling with the affections of…
Sword In The Stone, The (1963) Getting a mixed reception on its release, this feature-length cartoon account of young King Arthur's magical misadventures from Disney -…
Doctor Dolittle (1967) Entertaining fantasy musical based on the novels of Hugh Lofting, about the magnificent Victorian-era veterinary doctor who can talk to…
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) Charlie (James Booth) returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house has been demolished…
